Shiva Divekar

About Shiva Divekar

Insightful and disciplined Agile project/delivery management professional who will add value by bridging the gap between strategy and delivery. A strong blend of expertise in areas of agile/scrum development, agile coaching, leading medium to large application teams and working across organizational boundaries to achieve planned outcomes and exceed stakeholder expectations. Over 20+ years of experience, in the Information Technology area for Retail and Telecom industry, serving in varied roles of increasing responsibilities to deliver software process improvements at team and organization levels, championing change and agile transformation, leading geographically diverse and offshore/onsite teams, managing cross-functional team initiatives, managing people and coaching teams as well as, working onsite in client-facing delivery management roles. Core Competencies:** Agile/Scrum and Waterfall SDLC Methodologies** Agile Coaching and Servant Leadership** Scrum Master and Project Management ** Stakeholder/Relationship Management ** Vendor/Contract and Resource Management** Project Budgeting/Cost Management** Strategic Planning and Program Management** Continuous Improvement ** Excellent Communication Skills (Written and Spoken; Informal and Presentation)

Experience

1. Project Manager Specialist Senior, Technology

   Worldpay

   Jul 2024 — Present

Education

• Clemson University

  Master's Degree, Industrial Engineering

  1991 — 1994

• University of Mumbai

  Bachelor's Degree, Mechanical Engineering

  1983 — 1987

Skills

• Financial Analysis
• Governance
• Business Process Improvement
• Offshore Software Development
• Strategic Planning
• Integration
• Project Portfolio Management
• Change Management
• Budgets
• Program Management
• Software Project Management
• Vendor Management
• Strategy
• Management
• Cross-Functional Team Leadership
• IT Outsourcing
• Project Management
• Project Planning
• Outsourcing
• Sdlc
• Leadership